The chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun State, Mr. Adebayo Dayo, has revealed that the PDP would definately be heading to the election petitions tribunal to challenge the 2015 governorship and House of Assembly elections in Ogun State.
The PDP chairman revealed this as he granted a phone interview to Punch reporters.
Dayo said that the APC rigged the polls and PDP’s governorship candidate, Gboyega Isiaka deserves to be the winner.
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He said, “We are going to the tribunal to challenge the results of the governorship and House of Assembly elections. We won the governorship election but the APC rigged by changing figures at the collation centres.
“We are already putting our facts together.”
He also said that the party executive council in the state tried its possible best for their members in the elections.
However, the Director General, Senator Ibikunle Amosun Campaign Organisation, Chief Bode Mustapha said that the rigging allegation against the APC was wrong.
He alleged that the PDP had already declared their candidate winner before the election was concluded, and should be questioned.
Mustapha added, “We got information that the PDP wanted to rig the election but they were not successful. There are 4,010 polling booths in Ogun State, results were still being collated across different polling booths with some of them very far away. Then where did he get his results from?”
Meanwhile, The Resident Electoral Commissioner in the state, Chief Timothy Ibitoye denied the allegation that the elections in the state was rigged, asking: “Were you in the collation centre? If you were, then how is it possible for any irregularity to take place? Results were collated and announced publicly, and we have all seen the results.”
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